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Chewa
Chewa

Khmer
Khmer



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Countries

Countries

Malawi, Zimbabwe
Cambodia

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Zambia
Australia, France, United States of America

Regulated By

-
-

Interesting Facts

  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
  • Khmer is not the tonal language.
  • Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.

Similar To

Zulu language
Lao Language

Derived From

-
Pali and Sanskrit Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3153
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

520
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1833
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Khmer

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

54
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

32 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Moni
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)

Thank You

Zikomo
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)

How Are You?

Muli bwanji?
អ្នក​សុខសប្បាយ​ទេ

Good Night

Usiku wabwino
រាត្រីលា

Good Evening

Madzulo abwino
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ

Good Afternoon

Masana abwino
លើកលែងរសៀល

Good Morning

M'mawa wabwino
អរុណ​ប្រចាំឡើង

Please

Chonde
សូម

Sorry

pepani
សូរី

Bye

anatsanzikana
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)

I Love You

Ndimakukondani
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន

Excuse Me

Pepani
សូមទាញយក

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kasungu
Northern Khmer

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kikamtunda
Khmer Krom

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Vietnam

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.001,200,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimaravi
Western Khmer

Where They Speak

Malawi, Zambia
Cambodia, Thailand

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

56
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

12.00 million16.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.17 %0.24 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

12.00 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.50 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Nyanja
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)

Alternative Names

Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Cambodian, Khmer

French Name

chichewa; chewa; nyanja
khmer central

German Name

Nyanja-Sprache
Kambodschanisch

Pronunciation

[ˈtʃewa]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]

Ethnicity

Chewa people
Khmer, Northern Khmer

History

Origin

15th Century
14

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
-

Branch

Bantu
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Khmer

Standard Forms

Chewa
Modern Khmer

Language Position

271
1 120
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Signed Forms

Chewa Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ny
km

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

nya
khm

ISO 639 2/B

nya
khm

ISO 639 3

nya
khm

ISO 639 6

nya
khm

Glottocode

nyan1308
khme1253

Linguasphere

99-AUS-xaa – xag
48-ACB

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Analytic, Isolating

Chewa and Khmer Alphabets

Chewa and Khmer Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Chewa and Khmer. In Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters while in Khmer Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Chewa and Khmer languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Chewa and Khmer languages. The Chewa phonology consist Chewa vowels and Chewa consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Chewa greetings vs Khmer greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Chewa and Khmer are Most Spoken Languages.

All Chewa and Khmer Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Chewa and Khmer dialects. Various dialects of Chewa and Khmer language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Chewa are spoken in different Chewa Speaking Countries whereas Khmer Dialects are spoken in different Khmer speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Chewa vs Khmer Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Chewa dialects include: Kasungu, Kikamtunda. Khmer dialects include: Northern Khmer , Khmer Krom. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Chewa and Khmer Speaking population

Chewa and Khmer speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chewa and Khmer languages can be compared. The total count of Chewa and Khmer Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khmer language is 0.24 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Chewa and Khmer on Chewa vs Khmer where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chewa and Khmer Language Codes

Chewa and Khmer language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Chewa and Khmer Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.